[Savannah-cvs] [121] SavannahServices: mention admin on 'lists.gnu.org'

[Assaf Gordon]

Revision: 121
          
http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=121
Author:   agn
Date:     2014-12-06 02:57:58 +0000 (Sat, 06 Dec 2014)
Log Message:
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SavannahServices: mention admin on 'lists.gnu.org'

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn
    trunk/sviki/SavannahServices.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn  2014-11-29 00:01:22 UTC 
(rev 120)
+++ trunk/sviki/HomePageAvailabilityOfPhpAndMysql.mdwn  2014-12-06 02:57:58 UTC 
(rev 121)
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Neither PHP nor MySQL are available for projects' web pages on Savannah.
+We could offer this facility if anyone is ready to volunteer to maintain
+this for Savannah and gnu.org in the long run. Installing it is not a
+big deal; however, making sure it actually works as expected day after
+day requires lot of attention (and perpetual worry).
+
+The same goes for Perl, Python, or any other CGI.
+
+An excerpt from a mail exchange with (past FSF sysadmin) James Blair:
+
+        I don't think we should support dynamic content right now.
+
+        There is of course the security issue. Savannah and
+        http://www.gnu.org are both very important servers and I'm not
+        sure it's worth the risk.
+
+        Probably more importantly, they are both pretty heavily loaded
+        at the moment, and I'm not sure we should be adding any more
+        work for them.
+
+Comments
+--------
+
+**SSI** --steelemeal, Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:28 +0000
+What about Server Side Includes?
+
+**sandboxing and virtualization** --foo, Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:38:19 +0000
+
+Seeing that it is 2010... shouldn't it be possible to set up the
+savannah web server as a reverse proxy and have it get its content from
+virtualized/sandboxed instances? That should ease some of the pains in
+regard to security AND performance...
+
+**Re: sandboxing and virtualization** --Beuc, Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:14:42
+
+If you provide a solution that manages 3000 instances (one per project)
+without taking up all the RAM, with good performance balance so that 1
+resource-intensive instance won't affect other instances (and so that
+all instances still have decent performances each), with a network setup
+that prevent abuses (spam, etc.), then we could install it. Oh wait, we
+have the same kind of issues with a basic, Apache-based shared hosting
+already :/ So what good would virtualization provide here, beside more
+complexity?

Modified: trunk/sviki/SavannahServices.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/SavannahServices.mdwn   2014-11-29 00:01:22 UTC (rev 120)
+++ trunk/sviki/SavannahServices.mdwn   2014-12-06 02:57:58 UTC (rev 121)
@@ -299,6 +299,10 @@
 
 Spam handling is a whole subject in itself: [[ListHelperAntiSpam]].
 
+`lists.gnu.org` is administrated by FSF admins, not by savannah hackers,
+though savannah hackers have non-root access to the machine.
+See [[ListServer]] for information about mailing-list management.
+
 ## mgt - management
 
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